The 5 Most Terrifying Excerpts From the UCSB Shooter's Manifesto [Updated]

By
Mark Shrayber

May 26, 2014

More details have emerged regarding the mass shooting that happened in Isla Vista on Friday night. The shooter has been confirmed as Elliot Rodger, son of the second unit director of the first film in the Hunger Games franchise, and aside from the videos that Rodger left detailing his plans, he also left behind a terrifying manifesto entitled "My Twisted World" that gives some insight into Rodger's worldview and his thoughts on women, sex, and his family dynamics. Here are some disturbing excerpts.

"On the day before the Day of Retribution, I will start the First Phase of my vengeance: Silently killing as many people as I can around Isla Vista by luring them into my apartment through some form of trickery," Rodger chillingly wrote. "The first people I would have to kill are my two housemates, to secure the entire apartment for myself as my personal torture and killing chamber. After that, I will start luring people into my apartment, knock them out with a hammer, and slit their throats. I will torture some of the good looking people before I kill them, assuming that the good looking ones had the best sex lives."

"I will attack the very girls who represent everything I hate in the female gender: The hottest sorority of UCSB."

"The final solution to triumph over my enemies was to destroy them, to carry out my Day of Retribution, to exact my ultimate and devastating vengeance against all of the popular young people who never accepted me, and against all women for rejecting me and starving me of love and sex."

"On the morning before, I will drive down to my father's house to kill my little brother, denying him of the chance to grow up to surpass me, along with my stepmother … as she will be in the way. My father will be away on one of his business trips, so thankfully I won't have to deal with him. If he didn't go away on that trip, I might even have to postpone the whole plan because of my fear that I might hesitate if I have to kill him. Once I've taken care of my brother and stepmother, I will switch over to the Mercedes SUV, and drive it back up to Isla Vista. I will use it as one of my killing machines against my enemies. An SUV will cause a lot more damage than my BMW coupe."

"How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me? I am beautiful, and I am half white myself. I am descended from British aristocracy. He is descended from slaves. I deserve it more. I tried not to believe his foul words, but they were already said, and it was hard to erase from my mind. If this is actually true, if this ugly black filth was able to have sex with a blonde white girl at the age of thirteen while I've had to suffer virginity all my life, then this just proves how ridiculous the female gender is. They would give themselves to this filthy scum, but they reject ME? The injustice!"

"I didn't start this war. I wasn't the one who struck first. ... But I will finish it by striking back. I will punish everyone. And it will be beautiful. Finally, at long last, I can show the world my true worth."

What's most chilling is that Rodger's manifesto is getting praise on the Internet. Rap Genius posted the entire 141-page work on its website and one of the co-founders annotated it leaving comments such as "beautifully written" and "artful sentence," ignoring the fact that these supposedly beautiful sentences (they're not) detail the fact that Rodger was planning to murder countless people in cold blood due to his issues of anger and entitlement. One extra awful annotation: "MY GUESS: his sister is smokin hot."

You can read the entire manifesto here, but be warned: It's very disturbing material.

UPDATE, 5/26, 3:45 p.m.: Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam has resigned over his insensitive annotation of Rodger's manifesto. Sources claim that his resignation was actually a firing with investors demanding he be let go. Here's the statement from Rap Genius co-founder Tom Lehman.

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A Statement About Mahbod's Annotations on Elliot Rodger's Manifesto

Yesterday the Rap Genius community annotated Elliot Rodger's manifesto on News Genius. Because this tragedy is still so raw, there was internal debate as to whether this document belonged on the site at all. Ultimately we decided that it was worthy of close reading — understanding the psychology of people who do horrible things can help us to better understand our society and ourselves.

The current version of the annotated document is far from great, but the hope is that the annotations will improve over time as the story unfolds and it will eventually be a good resource for people looking to understand this tragedy.

Almost all the annotations were at least attempting a close reading — they were genuinely, though imperfectly, trying to add context to the text and make it easier to understand.

However, Mahbod Moghadam, one of my co-founders, annotated the piece with annotations that not only didn't attempt to enhance anyone's understanding of the text, but went beyond that into gleeful insensitivity and misogyny. All of which is contrary to everything we're trying to accomplish at Rap Genius.

Were Mahbod's annotations posted by a new Rap Genius user, it would be up to our community leaders, who set the tone of the site and our approach to annotation, to delete them and explain to the new user why they were unacceptable.

Were Mahbod's annotations posted by a Rap Genius moderator, that person would cease to be an effective community leader and would have to step down.

And Mahbod, our original community leader, is no exception. In light of this, Mahbod has resigned – both in his capacity as an employee of the company, and as a member of our board of directors, effective immediately.

Mahbod is my friend. He's a brilliant, creative, complicated person with a ton of love in his heart. Without Mahbod Rap Genius would not exist, and I am grateful for all he has done to help Rap Genius succeed. But I cannot let him compromise the Rap Genius mission – a mission that remains almost as delicate and inchoate as it was when we three founders decided to devote our lives to it almost 5 years ago.